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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28R-201 · Bowling Green, OH · January 14, 2010

Date
January 14, 2010 · 08:15 local
Place
Bowling Green, OH
Airport
Wood County
Phase of flight
Other, Specify
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Operator
LF8S
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N787BG
Reported as
Piper PA-28R-201
Reported engine
Lycoming I0360 SER A&C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificates
Commercial pilot, flight instructor
Pilot’s flight hours
810 total160 in this make and model60 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

While performing a touch-and-go landing, the PIC allowed the student to retract the landing gear mistakenly instead of the flaps. The aircraft's right main gear collapsed causing the aircraft to turn right and leave the runway surface.

As the FAA filed it

WHILE PERFORMING A TOUCH-AND-GO LANDING, THE PIC ALLOWED THE STUDENT TO RETRACT THE LANDING GEAR MISTAKENLY INSTEAD OF THE FLAPS. THE AIRCRAFT'S RIGHT MAIN GEAR COLLAPSED CAUSING THE AIRCRAFT TO TURN RIGHT AND LEAVE THE RUNWAY SURFACE.